Pain Will Never Leave Us.

Guilt Is Also A Way For Us To Express To Others That We Are A Person Of Good Conscience. 'i Feel Really Guilty About Getting Drunk Last Night,' We Say, When In Actual Fact We Feel No Guilt Whatsoever Or, At Least, We Could Choose To Feel No Guilt. When People Say To Me, 'i Drank Too Much Last Night,' I Always Reply, 'i Drank Exactly The Right Amount.

Facebook Is Not Ideologically Neutral. In Fact, It Emerges From A Very Particular World View Which We Can Trace Back To Hobbes. I Discovered This By Examining The Profile Of Zuckerberg's Fellow Board Members Who, Unlike Him, Are A Very Interesting Bunch And, I Suspect, The Real Power Behind The Poster Boy.

What I've Found In Working Less Is You Start To Get A Bit More Involved In The More Real Politics, Which Is Local Politics That Affect What's Going On In Your Own Community.

If Adam And Eve Were Not Hunter-gatherers, Then They Were Certainly Gatherers. But, Then, Consumer Desire, Or Self-embitterment, Or The 'itch,' As Schopenhauer Called It, Appeared In The Shape Of The Serpent. This Capitalistic Monster Awakens In Adam And Eve The Possibility That Things Could Be Better. Instantly, They Are Cast Out Of The Garden And Condemned To A Life Of Toil, Drudgery, And Pain. Wants Supplanted Needs, And Things Have Been Going Downhill Ever Since.

Computers Tend To Separate Us From Each Other - Mum's On The Laptop, Dad's On The Ipad, Teenagers Are On Facebook, Toddlers Are On The Ds, And So On.